MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton's tabling of a petition calling on the NSW Government to demand a federal royal commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) is a "distraction from the real issue", it has been claimed.

South-West Water Users Group chair Howard Jones said the petition – as well as ongoing calls to pause or scrap the MDBP – were misguided.

"It's distracting from what is ...